DAVID THOLANDER

Magician, actor and curiositor.

I specialize in things that look impossible, but aren't.

I work at bringing more magic to culture and more meaning to magic.

Engaged as creator and performer in projects in the field of performing arts. The majority of my work consists of performances, where a combination of magic, visual poetry and clown are recurring characteristics. I strongly believe in the richness of reaching out beyond the field of magic in order to develop as a magician and for magic as a form of expression to develop in general.

I am a graduate from l’École Internationale du Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in Paris, and member of the international theatre company The Krumple. As a magician I explore conjuring and magic from a range of different perspectives - in practice, theoretical and artistic. I explore how magic can relate to other artistic genres and expressions, and I study how different forms of magic can be executed as well as how the sense of magic can be experienced.

2018 Yokai – remède au désespoir - co-creator and performerTheatre production by The Krumple, produced in 2016. Danish tour, February/March, as part of Turnénetværket. Festival d’Avignon, Avignon, France, July 2018. GIFT, Georgian International Festival of the Arts, Tbilisi, Georgia, October 2018.

2018The Great Paradox of Play - co-creator and performerMagie nouvelle-/theatre production by Rapid Eye Company, premiere 11th of February 2018. Supported by the Danish Arts Foundation, The Nordic Culture Fond, Nordic Culture Point, Wilhelm Hansen Fonden and A.P. Møller Fonden. Part of Turnénetværket. Tour in Denmark, Finland and Sweden.